Found in Colombia, Ecuador and Peru at elevations of 600 to 2200 meters as a small sized, warm to cold growing terrestrial or epiphyte at tree bases with pendent slender, cane-like, leafless below, loosely several leaves above stems carrying coriaceous, suberect, narrowly linear-ellipitc, long acuminate, plicate, basally clasping leaves that blooms in the late winter and early spring on a terminal, cone-like then elongate, ovoid to cylindrical, slightly arcuate, to 3.2" [8 cm] long, densely many flowered inflorescence with spirally arranged, successively opening pink flowers